Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 37 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 37 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Claude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.535.1
Released2024-02-292024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked4654

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
WeirdML19.2%25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%45.9%
LiveBench Coding38.6%63.4%
LMArena Coding12641350
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%59.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
CadEval—30%
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SimpleBench23.5%31.1%
EnigmaEval0.8%1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%78.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451346
DTBench61.6%63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91135.36
LiveBench49.2%66.9%
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
Chess Puzzles5%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%57.8%
LiveBench Math43.6%75.8%
LMArena Math12731352
MATH Level 537.5%82.2%
Omni-MATH—45.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond47.2%64.1%
Confabulations22.7%12.4%
LMArena Expert12231339
MMLU84.6%79.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%

Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision10231158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English12581342
LMArena Chinese12481373
LMArena French12751391
LMArena German12581353
LMArena Japanese12041294
LMArena Korean11871313
LMArena Russian12801351
LMArena Spanish12461363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%85.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12481336
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query12591344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text12621354
LMArena Creative Writing12351340
LMArena Multi-Turn12751350
LiveBench Language50.4%51.3%
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

37 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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